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Embracing You


Embracing You
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Copyright: Jean Michel Peers (JeanMichel) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 633 W: 87 N: 938] (2864)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-05-09
Categories: Flowers
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF100-400 F4.5-5.6L IS, Digital ISO 400, Hoya HMC UV(0)
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/320 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2005-05-27 10:24
Viewed: 1207
Points: 14
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Dandelion seeds with embracing bindweed is not a rarity, but it led me into a little bit of linguistics today.

DANDELIONS are mainly called PISSENLIT in french, but also "dents-de-lion" (lion teeth), due to their leave's large indentations. Was the English name a consequence of the popular saying in French, or did the French interpretated the English name?
I have a chilled bottle of good Normandy cider ready for the perspicacious member who finds it.
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To go on a bit further, we say in french "manger les pissenlits par la racine" (eat the dandelions by the root), when in English people say in the same situation "to be pushing up the daisies". Still a reference to a flower.
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This was just to change a bit from a classical botanical point of view, although it is remarkable that youg leaves are appreciated as a salad and offered in the some of the best restaurants in France.
This very common wild flower exists in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. What about Oceania? My book (issued 1984) doesn't mention it.
Hope you'll like it.
Good week-end.
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Shot and adjusted in RAW. Converted to JPEG to just apply some light USM (85-0,5-0).
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Good shot Jean!
very good comp and the colors are excellent!

WellDone!

very nice photo! you made a great environment on this photo, i've tried to get a photo of a dandelion, but it was not good, this one is very good! congratullations!

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  • puciu Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 519 W: 0 N: 16] (2603)
  • [2005-05-27 17:19]

Perfekcyjny kadr dobre kolory i ostrość.
Fajna fotka.

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3471 W: 145 N: 5989] (17924)
  • [2005-05-28 0:11]

What a wonderful shot JM. Yes, it lives in NZ too - no doubt brought over here by the English pioneers in the 1800's.
Well composed, nice close-up of the bindweed beginning to strangle the dandelion. Excellent details and colours, thank you.

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  • dew77 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4964 W: 298 N: 4027] (13131)
  • [2005-05-28 3:44]

Hello Jean!
Wonderful shot.Lighting,DOF,BG,framing and composition are perfect.Very well done!
TFS...:-)

Hello Jean!
An artistic shot.Wonderful DOF,BG and composition.Very well done!Thanks for sharing.

great composition, so simple yet striking. The twisted small branches adds a nice second point of interest. Very well done.

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